Is the 379 every 30 minutes? I took it to be hourly to make 4 buses per hour into Bath with the 172, 173 and 174. So does this mean that Farmborough and High Littleton on the 178 lose all their service (bar a college bus on the 349)?
The south side of Bath and the area Dave refers to has been particularly badly hit by these cuts.
That will presumably depend on how much of a return to face to face teaching / lectures is planned.
Not just the students, but the staff. I travel in regularly from Combe Down and from Weston and losing the 22 and the 20 at the same time is extremely stressful. I'm thankfully on flexitime, but my partner isn't, and managing to do school drop off, grab a 2 down to down, and a U1 back up is near impossible in term time due to the sheer number of students travelling. With increased numbers of people doing that, the stress on the U1 service will be even greater.
I await the U1 and U2 timetables with interest and wonder what the peak vehicle requirement is for these services.
Sorry I misread it when it said 15 minutes frequency over common section of route.
Hourly 379 forming part of the Bath - Norton corridor but, as I said earlier, it was horrifically unreliable when the 178/379 were half the 15 min headway; it's why the 178 was split as it was.
Yeah, that corner of Bath gets the 5 from Whiteway and not much else. I suspect that they're thinking of some 16 seat minibus to pootle around on the 11/12?
Absolutely right. Travel from Wells to Weston at 0930 and it's busy from Cheddar. Travel on a peak journey and it was always thinner.
I am aiming to have a day out next week. Whilst I've been scooting around on Arriva Northumbria or First Essex/Eastern Counties or Stagecoach South in the last year, I've not actually had a day out on the local routes.
47 timetable on TravelineSW shows timings as Bristol - Yate - North Yate - Yate, departing Yate for N Yate at xx31. The return is Yate - N Yate - Yate - Bristol, departing Yate for N Yate at xx07.
Sorry, right you are. I'll amend my post accordingly.
Will there be an operator for the 82 do we know?
I believe there is a preferred option being progressed with the paymasters.
Awesome picture of the RELL6L! I am away this week and next but will try and get down to do the 126 later this month. There’s something really wrong if this route doesn’t pay its way.
The 376/379 timings are bat***t crazy. Bewildering is the word. You have the 376 30 mins apart but every hour, one is followed 10 mins later by a 379.
Looks odd, but I suspect the logic is to make sure 379 passengers have a better chance to get on. 376 is doubles, I suspect 379 won't be.
I suspect it will be doubles considering there arent many single deckers going about plus the 171, 172 and 376 are all doubles. There isnt a reason it shouldnt be. Especially considering it will be runnning the busy Radstock/Norton half and the busy Pensford/Whitchurch section and now will be the only route serving Paulton
It’ll be doubles on the 379s, with Wells’ E400s.
They have to interwork with the 172/173/174, which is why the timings are a bit weird.
ah its Wells doing the 379. Interesting
Appreciate that's the reason for it but we've been here before with the 379 following the 376. Sending another bus along the A37 when it's not needed is bizarre. I mean, they've managed ok for the last 6 years.
Yes I agree. By the looks of it a trip on an extended 349 from MSN to Bristol would follow a more direct route too.
I see reference to service 20 ‘timetables coming shortly’ has been removed from the First West of England website.
Not once you've done a circuit of Park Estate, it wouldn't. The timings for the extended 349 journeys are clearly wrong as there is a mere 11/12 minutes to get from Bilbie Green back in to Keynsham town centre, up Wellsway, out through Burnett and Marksbury to Farmborough. The afternoon trip is supposed to return in service from Midsomer Norton, dep 1733 to form the last 349 journey of the day from Keynsham to Bristol. The evening Park Estate loops have made a comeback, although i doubt they'll last long.
And the journeys from Keynsham to Bristol drop to hourly after 4pm.
Those timings are clearly wrong, as you say. The 178 currently takes 15 mins from Keynsham to Farmborough - the afternoon 349 will take 10. It will be late though as even comparing the same 349 timetable, the afternoon run from Bilbie Green is going to take 2 mins rather than the 5 mins on the other journeys. It's also 2 mins quicker to Paulton than the 178 though that's offset by being 2 mins slower from Paulton to MSN.
